Quotes (sticky)
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
(Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas.)
We must learn to die: That is all of life. To prepare gradually the masterpiece of a proud and supreme death, of a death where chance plays no part, of a well-made, beatific, and enthusiastic death of the kind the saints know to shape. Of a long-ripened death that effaces its hateful name and is nothing but a gesture that returns those laws to the anonymous universe which have been recognized and rescued over the course of an intensely accomplished life.
(p.15, The Dark Interval, Letter from Rilke to Mimi Romanelli)
Even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living
(p.102 When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi)
You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving
(p.145 When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi)
The ocean soothes me. Its massive presence makes me think, believe even, that the world is quite small. Dull. Insignificant. Without it, the weight of existence proves fatal to me.
(The Iliac Crest)